diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/camelot/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/camelot/default.nix
index be72b9b1488e..1f95916baff0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/camelot/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/camelot/default.nix
@@ -1,31 +1,39 @@
 {
-  buildPythonPackage,
-  chardet,
-  charset-normalizer,
-  click,
-  fetchPypi,
   lib,
+  pkgs,
+  fetchFromGitHub,
+  buildPythonPackage,
+
+  # build system
+  setuptools,
+
+  # dependencies
+  chardet,
+  click,
+  numpy,
   opencv-python-headless,
   openpyxl,
   pandas,
   pdfminer-six,
   pillow,
-  pkgs,
   pypdf,
   pypdfium2,
-  setuptools,
   tabulate,
-}:
 
-buildPythonPackage rec {
+  # tests
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  matplotlib,
+}:
+buildPythonPackage (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "camelot-py";
   version = "1.0.9";
   pyproject = true;
 
-  src = fetchPypi {
-    pname = "camelot_py";
-    inherit version;
-    hash = "sha256-1D2Idm98NGKAP/EUZOfT0VqSI+hFly3ith73w/YtMgA=";
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "camelot-dev";
+    repo = "camelot";
+    tag = "v${finalAttrs.version}";
+    sha256 = "sha256-msf49Vt0IlwUNTvLIqTWKlMfcFB0LnvGGf7vReqhJec=";
   };
 
   patches = [ ./ghostscript.patch ];
@@ -40,9 +48,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
   build-system = [ setuptools ];
 
   dependencies = [
-    chardet
-    charset-normalizer
     click
+    numpy
     opencv-python-headless
     openpyxl
     pandas
@@ -51,9 +58,27 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     pypdf
     pypdfium2
     tabulate
+    # Dependency not present in project's pyproject.toml, but doesn't build without it
+    chardet
   ];
 
-  doCheck = false;
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+    matplotlib
+  ];
+  disabledTests = [
+    # Assertion Error: <Cell cords> != <Cell other_cords>
+    "test_repr_ghostscript"
+    # cv2.error: color.cpp failure
+    "test_repr_ghostscript_custom_backend"
+    # urllib.error.URLError: temporary failure in name
+    "test_url_pdfium"
+    "test_url_ghostscript"
+    "test_url_ghost_script_custom_backend"
+    "test_pages_pdfium"
+    "test_pages_ghostscript"
+    "test_pages_ghostscript_custom_backend"
+  ];
 
   pythonImportsCheck = [ "camelot" ];
 
@@ -61,8 +86,8 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
     description = "Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs";
     mainProgram = "camelot";
     homepage = "http://camelot-py.readthedocs.io";
-    changelog = "https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/blob/v${version}/HISTORY.md";
+    changelog = "https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/blob/${finalAttrs.src.tag}/HISTORY.md";
     license = lib.licenses.mit;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ _2gn ];
   };
-}
+})